2.5 A Play PART II

2.5 A Play

Difficult Words

• Harsh - rough कठोर
• Noose -a loop formed in a rope - गळफास
• Spurn - reject with disdain or contempt धिक्कारणे
• Resist - to oppose प्रतिकार करणे
• Deny - to declare untrue सत्यत नाकारणे
• Prompt - ready तत्पर
• Cranky - an electronic person विक्षिप्त व्यक्ती
• Sane - realistic शहाणा
• Drastic - radical and extreme कठोर
• Yonder - over there पलीकडचा
• Obstruct - impede अडथळा करणे
• Reluctance - unwillingness नाराजी
• Predict - foretell भविष्य
•  Prophet - fortune teller भविष्य सांगणारा

Margin Questions

Q.1. What is the Goldsmith's excuse?

Ans. The Goldsmith's excuse is that the king orders him to set aside all his work and get the Queen's ornaments ready before her birthday.

Q.2. Is the Goldsmith telling the truth? Give reasons for your answer.

Ans, Yes, the Goldsmith is telling the truth. Because it was the king's order to set aside all his work and get Queen's ornaments ready before her birthday. And Goldsmith (one) would not have the courage to lie in front of the king about the king himself.

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Q.3. What is the Sage's request?

Ans. The sage's request is that the hangman should hang him instead of his disciple.

Q.4. What does the king want to know?

Ans. The king wants to know why a wise and holy man wishes to obstruct the course of justice.

Q.5. Is the king willing to hang the Sage?

Ans. No, the king is not willing to hang the sage after listening to his explanation.

Q.6. What is your opinion about the king - is the wicked, greedy, stupid, or all of these? Which of his actions/words show that?

Ans. I think, he is both stupid and greedy. As he believes in everybody's statement without proof, show he is stupid. And at the end of the play, he orders to hang him because the king wanted to be king again in his next birth-indicates his greediness.

ENGLISH WORKSHOP

Q.1. List the characters that appear for the first time in this part of the play. Write one or two lines about each of them.

Ans. Goldsmith, Sage, Hangman

1. Goldsmith - The one who makes the ornaments of the money-lender daughter and the Queen.
2. Sage - The wise person from a neighboring forest who saved his disciple from the punishment.
3. Hangman - He is a faithful executioner who hangs the convicts.

Q.2. Say whether the following sentences are True OR False.

(a) The Goldsmith blamed the king for the delay in his work. - True

(b) The king thought that the Goldsmith had a good reason to delay the Daughter's work. - False

(c) The Goldsmith was hanged. - False

(d) The noose did not fit the Goldsmith's neck. - True

(e) The noose did not fit the disciple's neck. - False

(f) The sage wanted to die on that day. - True

(g) The Sage wanted to save his disciple. - True

(h) The king wanted to be king again in his next birth. - True

Q.3. Write any three instances of funny rules and twisted logic used in Andher Nagari.

Ans. 

• In the first part, when the thief blamed the merchant for his friend's death because the merchant lived a house which they trying to steak from him.
• When the king ordered his guards to hang him at once because he wanted to be a king in his next life.
• When the noose did not fit the Goldsmith's neck, the king ordered the hangman to hang whosoever had a neck, that fit the noose.

Q.4. List the proverbs and sayings used in the play.

Ans.

1. A life for life.
2. Justice delayed is justice denied.
3. Action speaks louder than words.

Q.5. Read the entire play and complete the following blame game flow chart.

Ans.

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